Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Projection Design

The Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Projection Design is an honor presented at the Outer Critics Circle Awards, a ceremony established in 1950 for excellence in Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, to projection designers of any production. The category was added to the ceremony in 2016.

Award winners and nominees

Key

2010s

Year	Name	Work
2016
	Finn Ross	*American Psycho*
	Tal Yarden	Lazarus
	Lucy Mackinnon	Spring Awakening
	Peter Nigrini	Grounded
	Peter Nigrini	Dear Evan Hansen
2017
	Aaron Rhyne	*Anastasia*
	Jared Mezzocchi	Vietgone
	Benjamin Pearcy	Oslo
	Duncan McLean	Privacy
	Tal Yarden	Indecent
2018
	Finn Ross and Ash J Woodward	*Harry Potter and the Cursed Child*
	Finn Ross	Frozen the Musical
	Finn Ross	In the Body of the World
	Tim Reid	1984
	Finn Ross and Adam Young	Mean Girls
2019
	Peter England	*King Kong*
	Tal Yarden	Network
	Jeff Sugg	All My Sons
	Peter Nigrini	Beetlejuice
	Alex Basco Koch	Be More Chill

2020s

Year	Name	Work
2020 (Honorees)	Luke Halls	West Side Story
	Luke Halls	West Side Story
	Brad Peterson	Broadway Bounty Hunter
	Lisa Renkel and Possible Productions	Emojiland
	Aaron Rhyne	The Sound Inside
	Hannah Wasileski	Fires in the Mirror
2021	No award given due to COVID-19 pandemic.
2022
	Luke Halls	*The Lehman Trilogy*
	Stefania Bulbarella and Alex Basco Koch	Space Dogs
	Benjamin Pearcy and 59 Productions	Flying Over Sunset
	Shawn Duan	Letters of Suresh
	Jeff Sugg	Mr. Saturday Night
2023
	Andrzej Goulding	*Life of Pi*
	Christopher Ash and Beowulf Boritt	New York, New York
	Lucy Mackinnon	A Christmas Carol
	Isaac Madge	Leopoldstadt
	Sven Ortel	Parade
2024
	Peter Nigrini	*The Who's Tommy*
	Finn Ross	Back to the Future
	Paul Tate dePoo III	The Great Gatsby
	David Bengali	Water for Elephants
	Ash J Woodward	Patriots
2025
	David Bergman	*The Picture of Dorian Gray*
	Nathan Amzi and Joe Ransom	Sunset Boulevard
	Finn Ross	Boop! The Musical
	David Bergman	The Picture of Dorian Gray
	Hana Sooyeon Kim	Redwood
2026
	59 Studio	*Ragtime*
	Akhila Krishnan	Kyoto
	Derek McLane	This World of Tomorrow
	Johnny Moreno	Mexodus
	John Narun	Bughouse

Statistics

Multiple wins

2 wins

Finn Ross

Multiple nominations

7 nominations

Finn Ross

4 nominations

Peter Nigrini

3 nominations

Tal Yarden

2 nominations

Lucy Mackinnon
Aaron Rhyne
Benjamin Pearcy
Ash J Woodward
Jeff Sugg
Alex Basco Koch
Luke Halls

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Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Projection Design

Award winners and nominees

2010s

2020s

Statistics

Multiple wins

Multiple nominations

See also

Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Projection Design

Award winners and nominees

2010s

2020s

Statistics

Multiple wins

Multiple nominations

See also

See Also

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